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bornacatfan
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Posted: 1/4/2012 10:52 AM
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One of my Indiana friends (we all admit we are football rationale challenged) posed a question...."would Ohio have got more mileage out of Ford feild and beating Purdue than they did going out to ID? Was that an option?"

I had no answer but I told him I knew where to find out.
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Posted: 1/4/2012 11:09 AM
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The bowls invite the teams they want in a certain order. I think the Pizza Bowl was able to pick a MAC representative before the Potato Bowl could and it's evident they wanted a Michigan team for maximum ticket revenue.
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Posted: 1/4/2012 12:33 PM
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bornacatfan wrote:expand_more
One of my Indiana friends (we all admit we are football rationale challenged) posed a question...."would Ohio have got more mileage out of Ford feild and beating Purdue than they did going out to ID? Was that an option?"

I had no answer but I told him I knew where to find out.


The answer is absolutely.  If nothing else you would have gotten a much bigger "Woodstock effect."  Yeh, man, I think I was there when we won our first bowl game.
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Posted: 1/4/2012 12:38 PM
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I wonder what the TV viewing numbers were for ESPN for the Potato Bowl versus the Pizza Bowl. I get the impression there were more viewers (and press) for the Potato Bowl than for the Pizza Bowl since we played on the very first day of the bowl season. But I have no objective data to back that up; it's just my impression.
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Posted: 1/4/2012 1:00 PM
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Mark Lembright '85 wrote:expand_more
I wonder what the TV viewing numbers were for ESPN for the Potato Bowl versus the Pizza Bowl. I get the impression there were more viewers (and press) for the Potato Bowl than for the Pizza Bowl since we played on the very first day of the bowl season. But I have no objective data to back that up; it's just my impression.


Plus, I'd think that 5:30 on Saturday a week before Christmas  is a better football TV slot than 4:30 on the Tuesday after Christmas. It's a matter of wives/girlfriends/moms and all other stereotypical non-football-watching-people out shopping, leaving the menfolk at home alone with the TV vs. being back at work, banging our heads against our desks, trying to sort through all the crap that has piled up over a long holiday weekend.
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Posted: 1/4/2012 1:12 PM
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Mark Lembright '85 wrote:expand_more
I wonder what the TV viewing numbers were for ESPN for the Potato Bowl versus the Pizza Bowl. I get the impression there were more viewers (and press) for the Potato Bowl than for the Pizza Bowl since we played on the very first day of the bowl season. But I have no objective data to back that up; it's just my impression.
Pizza bowl did better, but we're talking a <4% difference.
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